doedit

[Bruce Easton]

It probably could be done with edits, but why not just use date fields 
to make the data uniform:

Then: da(6,mdy)=8; 8=da

(assuming that field 8 is declared as 8,mdy/)



On 7/16/19 2:58 PM, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list wrote:
> In a date field (8,mdy/) a few entries use a - rather than a slash i.e. 04-18-18 rather then 04/18/18.  As filePro excepts the dash- in the date field, will doedit change the - to a slash /?
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> If so, how would one write the program line?  The date field is field 8 in the file.  As there are only a few (14) out of 839 records, I could either write a process to update just those records or add the doedit to a lookup which uses this field.
> Lookup filed is kah(8) which sets dummy field ds. Ds=kah(8).
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